Indigenous people victims of land grabbers: TIB

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UNB, Dhaka :
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) executive director Dr Iftekharuzzaman on Monday said the indigenous communities are a major victim of the land grabbers who take hold of their lands defying prescribed government rules.
Referring to the earlier records, he alleged that the indigenous communities were being wiped out from their lands following forced evacuation by the land grabbers with the backing of the local administration,
Dr Ifetkharuzzaman made the allegation at a roundtable, titled ‘Evicting Indigenous People from
their Land and Guarantee of Land Governance’, arranged jointly by Association for Land Reform and Development (ALRD) and Bangladesh Adivasi Forum at Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) in the capital.
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